The emergency department at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is a designated area-wide trauma center staffed by experienced physicians, nurses and other emergency care experts. Industrial accidents, environmental emergencies, trauma, cardiac disease, substance abuse and OB/GYN cases are among the challenging cases treated by our nurses.

   Patient population: pediatrics to geriatrics

   Number of beds:

• 8 fast track
• 4 trauma
• 16 main exam area
• 6 psych
• 1 GYN
• 1 ENT
• 1 seclusion

   Nurse/patient ratio: 1:4-5 main department, 1:8 fast track, 
   1:2 trauma

   Rotation/shifts: 30-40 percent rotation, 12-hour average
   shift length, no on-call

   Orientation: 6-13 weeks, every orientee has a preceptor